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Untested by me. Extensive engine hack to make the engine fully scalable to any resolution, and calculates positions of all elements of the interface for desired width and height. Also adjusts sound positioning, fixes a number of UI bugs and disables sprite mirroring (if used without the UAP).

Features:

* All elements of the interface perfectly centered.

* No custom graphics and no upscaling/stretching.

* Full compatibility with any mods that are based off the 1.0.7.4 version.

* Full compatibility with older save games.

* Improved Compact UI. Can now be accessed anytime by pressing F10.

* Optional larger dialog and logbook fonts.

Warning: There are several quests where the 'aggro range' for failing the quest is based on whether it is drawn or not. If so, then you will encounter quests that are impossible to complete as you can't get close to the target without triggering 'guards'.

Untested by me. Allows Planescape:Torment, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the sword Coast, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter and Icewind Dale II to be played at any resolution, provided that its X axis is greater or equal than 800 and the Y axis is greater or equal to 600 . Fullscreen works for any resolution supported by your graphic card, driver and screen. Otherwise, you can play the game windowed (except in TotSC and Ps:T, where you can't play the game windowed).

Plays Baldur's Gate with the updated graphics, better resolution, and interface improvements in Baldur's Gate II by using its engine, and also transports you seamlessly into Baldur's Gate 2 upon its completion. Requires Baldur's Gate, Tales of the Sword Coast and Baldur's Gate II.

Allows Planescape:Torment, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the sword Coast, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter and Icewind Dale II to be played at any resolution, provided that its X axis is greater or equal than 800 and the Y axis is greater or equal to 600 . Fullscreen works for any resolution supported by your graphic card, driver and screen. Otherwise, you can play the game windowed (except in TotSC and Ps:T, where you can't play the game windowed).

A collection of mods, tools and fixes selected by the ModDB community, adding campaigns, quests and conversions to Fallout 2. I do not recommend the Restoration Project, as it adds elements to the game that are of low quality and break the game's continuity, such as a low quality talking head for Cassidy and poor implementation of Sulik's tribe and sister quest.

One player's personal list of preferred mods for graphics, realism, music and more. Includes a guide on how to load mods for beginners, and also the author's own extreme realism mod for players who feel that the "harsh wasteland" is too much of a walk in the park. Last updated April 2010.

Eliminates the need of ArchiveInvalidation.txt by adding a dummy texture BSA to the start of the BSA load list. This stops Fallout 3's ArchiveInvalidation from running on its main texture BSA allowing any texture replacements you have to work automatically without the need to do anything ever again.

It's weird that the world is tinted green when it's been 200 years since the last bomb fell. Gives the world a harsh look reminiscent of the Sahara Desert by removing green tint everywhere, including indoors. Includes Atmospheric Sun Glare by LadyDeadlock, used with permission.

Adds new poses, the Sexy Pandora Companion, GreenWorld, AlexScorpions Sniper Gear, tight fitting leather armour for games with the BABE body replacer, exotic dancers, a spacious club house and the Path of the Gunslinger quest mod. Download as one pack or all separately.

Untested by me. Allows Planescape:Torment, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the sword Coast, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter and Icewind Dale II to be played at any resolution, provided that its X axis is greater or equal than 800 and the Y axis is greater or equal to 600 . Fullscreen works for any resolution supported by your graphic card, driver and screen. Otherwise, you can play the game windowed (except in TotSC and Ps:T, where you can't play the game windowed).

An rather clear, step by step guide on how to safely install Morrowind with a plethora of many of the community's very best mods. Includes all the links and descriptions for all mods and apps needed. An ideal starting point for all new Morrowind modders and experienced modders with fresh installs.

A single list of mods with descriptions and links, devoted to making morrowind's gameplay more realistic. Encompasses such things as penalties with increased injury and fatigue, sneak bonuses at night, less generic NPC responses and much much more.

Untested by me. Allows Planescape:Torment, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the sword Coast, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter and Icewind Dale II to be played at any resolution, provided that its X axis is greater or equal than 800 and the Y axis is greater or equal to 600 . Fullscreen works for any resolution supported by your graphic card, driver and screen. Otherwise, you can play the game windowed (except in TotSC and Ps:T, where you can't play the game windowed).

A top 10 list of Skyrim mods to improve the games. The written descriptions are at times vague and fail to effectively describe the mods, but the mods themselves appear to be top notch. Updated Feb 28, 2012.

Brings the game from 2007 to 2009 with over 30 mods that add photographic textures, additional bumpmaps, realism, freedom, sound, music and add community fixes. Technological enhancements include HDR, depth of field, motion blur and much more.

A collection of many, many mods merged with the also enormous Oblivion Lost mod, which makes vast improvements to the AI, world realism, realism of the player's actions, dynamic anomalies and much much more. The scale of all these mods cannot be defined by the few lines I have here.

P&P Mod v3.01 (Download link is about 3/4 the way down the page, and can be easily overlooked.)

Changes the game rules to be more like the original roleplaying game from White Wolf. Several skill synergies are different, many disciplines have different costs and durations, there are several new clans to choose from (as well as the originals), and everyone gets an extra discipline at character generation. The only downside I've seen is that Jack accuses you of cheating in the tutorial - say you're using a mod, though, and it continues as if nothing was different. (Review by Cybes) Includes 16 new clans.

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A quick warning with the Arcanum "Hi Res" pack. There are several quests where the 'aggro range' for failing the quest is based on whether it is drawn or not. If so, then you will encounter quests that are impossible to complete as you can't get close to the target without triggering 'guards'. Cemetry quest is one example.

So use with care.

However... The NUMBER ONE big super duper 'unofficial' patch that MUST be installed is the Drog Black Tooth patch.

This patch restores lost content (Content that was meant to be there but due to coder error was omitted), fixes problematic conversations which appear to loop, fixes the "idiot savant" conversation options.

HEAPS of fixes. Worth replaying the game with this patch installed no matter how many times you've finished the game. ADDS HEAPS!

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^ This kind of thing is exactly what I need to hear :] I was hoping to make a community made post on the best RPG mods, but I'm thinking this post will slip into nothing unless I get Fallout 3 and mod it like mad.

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trying to get the widescreen mod from gibblings 3 working on IWD2, but no such luck. anyone care to lend a hand.

its not installed in default location, but rather in an E: drive. recon that could be the culprit? ive launced the app both from within the game dir, but still no joy, it says it cant patch the iwd2.exe file...

hmm, maybe it write protect....

brb...

nah, that didnt do it...

anyone?

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trying to get the widescreen mod from gibblings 3 working on IWD2, but no such luck. anyone care to lend a hand.

its not installed in default location, but rather in an E: drive. recon that could be the culprit? ive launced the app both from within the game dir, but still no joy, it says it cant patch the iwd2.exe file...

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Thanks, Kung Fu, but I already did - just after I posted. Though I'm holding off on CompMod until I've played it through solo again. (Rolled a Toreador... I only just got that bitch through last time, and I was in practice then!)

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Thanks, Kung Fu, but I already did - just after I posted. Though I'm holding off on CompMod until I've played it through solo again. (Rolled a Toreador... I only just got that bitch through last time, and I was in practice then!)

Wasn't just for you, other people play Bloodlines too :] You just reminded me. xD

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Here's a dumb question, Kung Fu... Where in hell does a .esp file (like Greenworld's, for ex) reside? The game doesn't have any of it's own, nor an obvious place for 'em, and the archive helpfully doesn't mention it.

I've been awake for about 18 hours on only 4 hours sleep, so it's quite possible I'm just not seeing what's right in front of me, but I really have no idea where this thing goes.

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^ What he said, the process is exactly the same for Bethesda's other games, Morrowind and Oblivion. Also, never mod a Bethesda game without a modding software like FOMM. I might write a more detailed guide later.

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Installed: Unofficial patch and "Hires building" patch. Did not install hi-res GAME patch.

I run this is Windows Vista (32 bit).

I found a massive issue with 'mouse lag' on this. In the end I found this relates to DirectDraw and Vistas handling of Directdraw/3d. To get maximum performance out of this, you need to turn off all 3d acceleration for the game. In some cases, just selecting 'default off' is not enough and needs to be 'forced off'.

Adds motorcycles to the Wasteland for you to repair, cruise around on and upgrade or 'pimp' with weapons and crazy inventions. - "Nothing is better than first cripple a raider with your dual miniguns then crush his skull under your wheel!"

Brings the game from 2007 to 2009 standards with over 30 mods that add photographic textures, additional bumpmaps, realism, freedom, sound, music and community fixes. Technological enhancements include HDR, depth of field, motion blur and much more. Look at the screenshot gallery and be amazed. Yes, that is STALKER Complete 2009, not STALKER Clear Sky.